I'm back again. This week has been quite busy actually. The main focus this week has been my project for my Masters course. I have everything online now, and ready to go. I've been getting people to test it, and write any thoughts, comments, and problems they have with the module. So far three people have tried it out, and it's gone well. I've got some good feedback already, and I should have plenty more by next week. Then it's pretty much just writing about how things went, and organizing everything for the final day of class. Considering where I was just a month ago, it's come a long way and actually looking pretty good.
Work has been going pretty well too. I've been helping out a few customers over the phone with some of the technology they have at home. It sounds like a couple of them may come to the library to see what technology we have as well, so I hope they do stop in soon. I've also been doing more work with Intermedia Arts this past week. This Tuesday, we had our second Digital Advisory committee meeting, which was pretty interesting. A lot of interesting ideas came from it, so I'm interested to see what happens over the next few months. We also had some good food.
I also did a presentation to the Intermedia Arts staff this Wednesday on assistive technology and website accessibility. I only had about 20 minutes, so I didn't get to show off that much cool stuff, but it was still a lot of fun, and people seemed to really get into it. I actually really enjoy doing this kind of thing too, so I guess that's something to sconsider when looking for my next job. I would almost make a good salesmen that goes to trade shows and stuff to show the technology and talk about how cool it is.
Late last week I also started working with a new portable book reader called the Book Port. It's about the size of a calculator, and will read a variety of different types of electronic books. It reads text, Word documents, HTML pages, and also supports Audible books, Daisy books, and regular MP3 files. The speech synthesizer it uses isn't near as good as Jaws, but I'm starting to get used to it more now. Maybe in a future hardware update, they'll support more synthesizers? The nice thing is that it uses standard compact flash cards for storage. It came with a 256 MB version, but I've already almost filled that up. I may have to look into a couple bigger cards for all the books and media I have. It's still nice though because the bus rides aren't near as boring, and I can just tune out the annoying people.
I haven't done too much for fun the last few days. It's been so nice out, but I've been so busy I haven't gotten to take much advantage of it. There will be a CTEP party this weekend that should be fun to go to though. And tomorrow the AU committee is starting its first video shoot, so that should also be interesting.
That's about all for this week.
Work has been going pretty well too. I've been helping out a few customers over the phone with some of the technology they have at home. It sounds like a couple of them may come to the library to see what technology we have as well, so I hope they do stop in soon. I've also been doing more work with Intermedia Arts this past week. This Tuesday, we had our second Digital Advisory committee meeting, which was pretty interesting. A lot of interesting ideas came from it, so I'm interested to see what happens over the next few months. We also had some good food.
I also did a presentation to the Intermedia Arts staff this Wednesday on assistive technology and website accessibility. I only had about 20 minutes, so I didn't get to show off that much cool stuff, but it was still a lot of fun, and people seemed to really get into it. I actually really enjoy doing this kind of thing too, so I guess that's something to sconsider when looking for my next job. I would almost make a good salesmen that goes to trade shows and stuff to show the technology and talk about how cool it is.
Late last week I also started working with a new portable book reader called the Book Port. It's about the size of a calculator, and will read a variety of different types of electronic books. It reads text, Word documents, HTML pages, and also supports Audible books, Daisy books, and regular MP3 files. The speech synthesizer it uses isn't near as good as Jaws, but I'm starting to get used to it more now. Maybe in a future hardware update, they'll support more synthesizers? The nice thing is that it uses standard compact flash cards for storage. It came with a 256 MB version, but I've already almost filled that up. I may have to look into a couple bigger cards for all the books and media I have. It's still nice though because the bus rides aren't near as boring, and I can just tune out the annoying people.
I haven't done too much for fun the last few days. It's been so nice out, but I've been so busy I haven't gotten to take much advantage of it. There will be a CTEP party this weekend that should be fun to go to though. And tomorrow the AU committee is starting its first video shoot, so that should also be interesting.
That's about all for this week.
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